Endagerment of the Black Rhino

Scientists are unsure what the exact purpose for the frills and facial horns is. Originally, they were thought to have been defensive weapons, but more recently it has been found that they were mostly used in identification14. Triceratops grew up to 8 or 9 metres long, 3 metres tall and between 13,000 and 16,000 lbs15. They were bird hipped (Ornithischian), possessed a sturdy build with strong limbs and had “hands” with three hooves, “feet” with four hooves16.

Elephant populations suffered a drop in numbers that carried the species into the endangered animals list. At the beginning of the twentieth century, about ten million elephants lived in Africa. Presently, the ten million is reduced to half a million because of illegal hunting and habitat loss. Studies of the population show twenty-two thousand were killed in 2012 and twenty-five thousand in 2011. When comparing the death rate to the natural population growth, there is a possibility the largest mammal on Earth could be extinct soon (Vaughan 1). Because the elephant is the largest animal to walk on land, the greatly increasing human population affects the elephant population first. They live in some regions of the world that have the densest human population which continues to grow, which therefore continuously decreases their own population (Bryner 1). As the human population swiftly increases, the elephant population in turn, decreases. This is so because they cannot cohabitate the same living space. Elephants and humans cannot cohabitate because they would kill each other due to the inability to communicate. About population recovery, the Animal wildlife foundation states, “Populations of elephants- especially in Southern and Eastern Africa- that once showed promising signs of recovery could be at risk due to the recent surge in poaching for the illegal ivory trade”(1). Poaching presents one of the main issues that make recovery so difficult for these animals.

It's an August afternoon in the Zanda Basin in southwestern Tibet, in the foothills of the Himalayas. I am wandering aimlessly in a patch of badlands, slightly lightheaded owing to the more than 14,000-foot elevation, scanning the ground for any signs of fossils, or for that matter, anything that might distract me from the monotony of a day of fruitless search. It is late into our field season, and besides a tooth fragment or two, I have little to show for a day's work, something all vertebrate paleontologists learn to endure. On impulse I head farther west along a layer of rusty yellow sandstone, and there I see a piece of reddish-brown bone sticking out of the dirt. A few quick sweeps of my brush reveal a ring-shaped bone. Upon digging it out, I recognize it is an atlas -- the neck vertebra that connects with a skull -- possibly from a rhinoceros. Not a

Once upon a time there was a rhinoceros and an oxpecker. One day a mean tick came flying by looking for food. As he flew around the hot savanna he saw a rhinoceros. After heavy consideration he decided to suck blood from the juicy looking rhino. (The tick sucking blood from the rhino is a form of parasitism) After a few hours the rhino started to feel weakness. Not knowing what was going on he called his friend the zebra over whom just so happened to have a hungry oxpecker on his back. Getting Excited the oxpecker flew over to rhinos back and ate all the ticks the rhinoceros felt much much better. (The bird eating ticks off the rhinos back is a form of mutualism) Later on that day another bird flew in from another hot day in the savanna tired

They have soft but short fur, which is bushy on their tail. Dingoes’ fur thickness and length vary depending on the climate. Although entirely black dingoes may have been more common in the past, they have only been seen a few times

The white rhinoceros and the Asian elephant possess many similar characteristics, including the way they look, yet also possess many differences such as the two continents they live on. There are five living species of rhino (black, white, Indian, Javan and Sumatran) and only two of the elephant (African and the Asian). All are in jeopardy of extinction with their slow rate of breeding, poaching and in the rhinoceroses, their territorial behavior.

Recently, Harvard geneticist George Church and his team announced that they could produce an Asian elephant-mammoth embryo in a couple of years. The result would not be a mammoth, but it would be an Asian elephant with mammoth traits. The team chose to use Asian elephant because they are the most like wooly mammoths. The team has incorporated traits of a wooly mammoth into elephant DNA using CRISPR, a gene-editing technology. The team must raise the embryo in an artificial womb since Asian elephants are endangered and cannot be put at risk. I think this task would be very hard to achieve because it would be hard to raise an embryo for so long. Although this task is hard, I think it is very interesting because

Would you change your lifestyle to save the existence of a species? In western society, it is our lifestyle to go to the doctors when you are sick, drive to work and buy food from a grocery store. It is hard to remember that around the globe there are different customs and ways of life. A lot of people make the means to live by working the land, owning their own shops, fishing, and hunting animals. Poachers in Africa make their living by hunting elephants, lions, rhinos, and other exotic animals. Countries in Asia, like Vietnam and China, have been using rhino horn medicinally for generations. Would they be willing to change their entire lifestyle to save the existence of a species?

Through out the past couple of week, my group has been learning a lot about Black Rhinos. The reason why we choose to about our paper on Black Rhino was because we wanted to learn more about them. We thought that learning about an animal that has been on the planet for so many years, it would be interesting to see what issues that they are being faced with and what it happening to them. We have heard about rhino as when were kids, and throughout this assignment we able to learn what we wanted to know as children. We wanted to know why more about why Black Rhino were critically endangered and what moments in history that many there status drop. After, the Cecil the Lion incident we wonder if there were more animals that we being killed for the purpose of trophy hunting or poaching. The Black Rhino project was

Have you ever wondered about the White Rhinoceros? Me to, lets find out about it's food, appearance, and family!

This paper seeks to analyze Eugene Ionesco’s anxiety about the spread of fascism in society through conformity as highlighted in his play Rhinoceros, which was inspired by Ionesco’s personal experiences in the 1930s Romania. Using the theatre of absurd, Ionesco depicts the main character Berenger's struggle to maintain his identity and integrity as a human, when everyone else in his small town, even his best friend Jean and girlfriend Daisy conformed into animalism. In Rhinoceros, Berenger is portrayed as a care-free, passive, drunk that did not fit in with society. He complains to his best friend Jean about how bored he felt with his

Not long ago, recently actually, a by-chance discovery was made in permafrost. First mistaken for a deer carcass, half submerged, was the small and fragile body of a 10,000 year old baby woolly rhino. It was estimated that it was about 18 months when it passed away, and then spent the next 9,998 years (and some change) frozen in the Sakha Republic.

The black rhino is the smaller of the two African rhinoceros species and are further divided into four subspecies including the Western Diceros bicornis longipes, Eastern Diceros bicornic michaeli, Southwestern Diceros bicornis bicornis, and the South-Central Diceros bicornis minor (Factfile: black rhino, 2013). Black rhinos stand at approximately 1.6 meters high, can weigh between 900kg (female) to 1,350kg (males), have two horns that vary in shape and size depending on region, are dark gray in color with hair on the ears, tail tips, and eyelashes (Factfile: black rhino, 2013). Compared to the white rhino, black rhinos are smaller, have a less pronounced hump on the back of their necks, have smaller heads, are browsers (meaning they eat from higher bushes or trees), and have a hooked lip, as opposed to the flat-based lip their white rhinoceros counterparts posses (Factfile: black rhino, 2013).

Black rhinoceros is powerful land mammal but despite its strength and take no nonsenses attitude has declined in number and is threatened with extinction. There are approximately 11,0000 individuals of all five species surviving in small scattered populations throughout Africa and other Asians countries. The black rhino has suffered the most unseen decline in numbers and disappearing faster than any other large mammal. Black rhino were scattered across central, eastern, and southern Africa. In the early years of 1970s their numbers had declined to 65,000 and over the past 18 years

Studies indicates that nearly 16,000 type of animals, plants, fish and birds faces a grave danger of becoming extinct. This issue has left many asking why this is happening, and if there is something that can be done differently to protect them (Panda, 2013). I will specifically cover the following animals: blue whale, polar bear, tiger and the mountain gorilla. These animals are among the 16000 animals that are critically threatened with extermination (Panda, 2013). In fact, as indicated in IUCN Red List, approximately 22 out of a hundred of all mammalian class are likely to disappear in the next century (Panda, 2013). I selected this topic since I had not actually deliberated the statement previously, and was surprised after conducting preliminary research to establish the level of impact on our planet associated with the extermination of such large number of animal species.